A Woolf at the Hogarth Press: Virginia Woolf and the Art of Publishing
Katryna Storace
Abstract
Among those publishing houses whose stories continue to fire the public imagination, the Hogarth Press – immortalised most recently in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham's The Hours – occupies a particularly cultish presence. Even in an age of self-publishing, we rarely think to equate publishers with authors: writing and publishing are still considered two different, albeit interdependent, functions of the book trade. For Leonard and Virginia Woolf, however, this was different. When they set up the Hogarth Press in the basement of their Richmond home, it was to become one of the most interesting enterprises in publishing history, bringing together the writing, editing, typesetting, printing and design of some of the most exciting books of the first half of the 20th century.
Katryna Storace
Abstract
Among those publishing houses whose stories continue to fire the public imagination, the Hogarth Press – immortalised most recently in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham's The Hours – occupies a particularly cultish presence. Even in an age of self-publishing, we rarely think to equate publishers with authors: writing and publishing are still considered two different, albeit interdependent, functions of the book trade. For Leonard and Virginia Woolf, however, this was different. When they set up the Hogarth Press in the basement of their Richmond home, it was to become one of the most interesting enterprises in publishing history, bringing together the writing, editing, typesetting, printing and design of some of the most exciting books of the first half of the 20th century.